Artist: Urs Graf (1485 - 1527)
Nationality: Swiss
Movement: Renaissance
Media: Painting,Engraving
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Biography:
Urs Graf was initially trained by his father and then apprenticed to a local goldsmith in Zurich. He first made a living by designing book illustrations and working as the assistant to a stained-glass painter. He entered the goldsmith’s guild in 1512 and became a citizen of Basel. He was repeatedly arrested for beating his wife and supporting prostitution until in 1518, he was forced to leave after a murder attempt. The city invited him to return and work as the mint’s die cutter in 1519, but he left the city once again eight years later.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (80)
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Urs Graf The Passion 1520
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Urs Graf The Passion 1520
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Urs Graf The Passion 1520
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Urs Graf The Passion 1520
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Urs Graf The Passion 1520
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Urs Graf The Passion 1520
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Urs Graf The Passion 1520
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Urs Graf The Passion 1520
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Urs Graf The Passion 1520
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Urs Graf The Passion 1520
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Urs Graf The Passion 1520
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Urs Graf The Passion 1520
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Richard Graf Untitled Lithograph 1966
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Richard Graf Untitled Lithograph 1966
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Richard Graf Untitled Lithograph 1966
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Richard Graf Untitled Lithograph 1966
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Leopold Graf Von Kalckreuth The Reaper Etching and drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Leopold Graf Von Kalckreuth Faldarbeitering (Field Worker) Etching 19th - 20th century
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Richard Graf The Dark Night Color woodcut 1960
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Richard Graf Gentle Unicorn color lithograph 1974
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Alfred Cossmann Bookplate of Arthur Graf Etching 19th - 20th century
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Leopold Graf Von Kalckreuth Heimkehr (Return Home) Color lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Richard Graf Untitled (Erotic subject) Lithograph 1964
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Leopold Graf Von Kalckreuth Ninnenei und Muhme (Ninnenei and Auntie) Mezzotint 19th - 20th century
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Richard Graf Tender Flames of My House on Fire Lithograph 1964
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Richard Graf Progress of the Soul:The Departure Color woodcut 1960
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Urs Graf Christ Before Pilate Woodcut 15th - 16th century
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Leopold Graf Von Kalckreuth Self-Portrait Etching (on Imperial Japan paper) 19th - 20th century
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William Unger Hugo Graf Abensperg-Traun 19th century
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Joseph Kriehuber Portrait of Joseph Matthias Graf Thun (1794-1868) Lithograph 1842
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Richard Graf Solitude, O Heart of Man/Solitude and Shadows at the high noon of man Two lithographs on one sheet 20th century
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Louis-Francios-Sebastian Fauvel Le Comte de Daun(Leopold Joseph , Graf von Daun, 1705-1766) etching with hand coloring ca. 1760
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Dancing Peasant Couple
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Wenceslas Hollar Der Graf (The Nobleman), pl. 11 from the set Der Totentanz nach Holbein, (The Dance of Death, after Holbein) Etching 1651
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Ray George Box I Color lithograph 1974
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Sigmund Abeles Woman With Cat lithograph 1973
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Juergen Strunck Untitled Lithograph 1973
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Jeanne Richards Big Meadow Etching 1973
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Ray George May 1974 Color lithograph 1974
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Thom O'Conner The Witches Lithograph 1972
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Chuck Cave Nada Mas Lithograph 1974
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Emil Nolde Der Graf (The Count) Etching with tonal effects on iron plate , printed in black ink on white machine made wove paper 1918
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George O'Connell Leda and the Swan Lith 1973
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Funerary portrait of a woman Egyptian Roman Period about A.D. 100 Paint on wood Height
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Robert Malone Earth-Lung lithograph 1972
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Herb Jackson Passage color lithograph 1972
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Chuck Cave Death in the Family Lithograph 1974
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Ray George March Skulls Color lithograph 1974
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Herb Jackson Open color lithograph 1973
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Ben Berns Landscape color lithograph 1974
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Peter Agostini Untitled color lithograph 1974
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Rudy Pozzatti Turn-about Color Lithograph 20th century
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Clinton King Lorelei color aquatint etching 1971
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John Schlump The Seat of Consciousness Screenprint 1972
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Robert Malone Untitled (Nude and two ears) lithograph 1972
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Russell T. Gordon Tulip Table color lithograph 1974
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Thomas Seawell Michigan Collograph, with etching and aquatint 1973
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G. Ray Kerciu Untitled (Napoleon) color lithograph 1972
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G. Ray Kerciu Untitled (Circus Troupe) color lithograph 1972
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Marvin Lowe Voodoo of the Western World color mixed intaglio 1973
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Misch Kohn General Color lithograph 1970
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Misch Kohn Double Portrait of the Artists Lithograph 1971
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Misch Kohn Long Beaked Bird Color lithograph 1970
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Richard Hunt Untitled lithograph 1972
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Richard Hunt Untitled lithograph 1972
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Walter Leistikow Das Haus (The House) Etching 1899
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Walter Leistikow Baumgruppe (Group of Trees) Etching 1896
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Walter Leistikow Waldsee (Forest Lake) Etching 1897
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Walter Leistikow Kraniche (Cranes) Color lithograph 1898
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Walter Leistikow Dorf (Village) Etching 19th - 20th century
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Walter Leistikow Water Hole Etching 19th - 20th century
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Walter Leistikow Brick Factory Etching 19th - 20th century
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Walter Leistikow Grunewaldsee (Lake in Greenwoods) Etching 19th - 20th century
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Walter Leistikow Dunenlandschaft (Hilly landscape) Etching 19th - 20th century
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Walter Leistikow Buchenwald (Beech forest) Etching 19th - 20th century
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Walter Leistikow Alte Eichen (Old Oaks) Etching 19th - 20th century
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Classical Landscape with Figures Henri Mauperché (French, 1602?–1686)Oil on canvas; 27 7/8 x 44 1/4
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Hans Baldung (Grien), German, 1484-85–1545 The Witches" Sabbath 1510 Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669 David in Prayer 1652 Etching and drypoint on pale
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Jan Fyt, Flemish, 1611-1661, and Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish, 1607-1678 Still Life in an Architectural Setting

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (5)
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J. Paul Getty Center: German and Swiss Drawings from the Permanent Collection
The exhibition will explore the range of German and Swiss draftsmanship of the 16th and 17th centuries through figure and compositional studies, designs for prints and decorative objects, and port...
National Galery of Art: From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings from Basel and Berlin
The exhibition is made possible by UBS AG. The Gallery has long been devoted to collecting and exhibiting early German and Swiss art, and this rich and varied showing o...
O.K. Center of Contemporary Art: Open House: Art and the Public Sphere tToday
Urban spaces that were formerly defined as public and used that way, have gradually been transformed into a Cinecittà of modernist and postmodern architecture, the motor of which is driven by the interests of big business and spectacle. Parallel t...
National Gallery: Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting
Artists bring dress and drapery to life, showing us how to see and feel it. In responding to contemporary fashion, they present to each age a compelling image of how clothes should be worn. The exhibition opens with a striking series of paired pai...
Cairns Regional Gallery: Cairns Art Societies 55th Annual Open Art Awards
We promote the Open Art Awards nationally through The Australian Artist magazine and subsequently we have received entries from as far afield as the Margaret River region in Western Australia and Adelaide, Ms Donne said. The Cairns Art Socie...

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